I Did My Best As A Trader, Do Better As A Professor — Obi Tells Soludo

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi has urged the governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, to do better than he did while he governed the state.

Obi said this on Tuesday at the 2022 Lagos Business School Alumni Conference, while reacting to some of the bashings he has been receiving from the current Anambra State governor in recent days.

The LP candidate said, “He (Soludo) remains my brother. For other things (that) I did not succeed, God has given him the opportunity to succeed. For me, you don’t finish governance. You stop where you stop and other people continue from there. He is the governor of my state, he is my senior brother and he is even more intelligent than me because he is a professor and I am a trader.

“When you spread your investment, some go up, some will come down. But overall, the company is still there, the company is still doing well. It is still part of a global chain and everything.

“I needed to explain it not because I am defending comments by my brother. My brother is my brother, he remains my brother. We are very close. I remain prayerful for him.

“For other things which I didn’t succeed, God has given him the opportunity to do it and succeed. For me, yes, if there is anything pending, governance does not finish. People are still in government in America. So you stop where you stop, and other people will continue from there.

“I don’t look back. He is the governor of my state, I will always respect him. He’s my senior brother and even more intelligent than me because he is a professor and I am a trader. So he knows more. So he will be able to do things better than I am doing them.

“You know I have done my little own as a trader, now that a professor is there, he will do his own as a professor. The schools I didn’t roof, you roof. That is how government goes. If another person comes, do his own”.